Some time back I wrote here that we were removing a wide swath of grass and replacing it with gravel in order to provide more parking space. I am pleased to announce that that project is nearing a successful completion.

Most of the grass was St Augustine although there was a patch of Bermuda mixed in also. First we covered it with plastic and later decided to use a tarp just because it was heavier and stayed in place better. When we pulled it off most of the grass was dead. I mowed as low as I could and then used a garden rake to pull up as much dead stuff as I could. It was surprising how easy it was to get down to bare dirt. The past week I’ve been shoveling the gravel over the area. I’ve only been working on that an hour or so a day. Gravel is pretty heavy and for me moving it around is quite a workout in this heat.

Anyone who is a blogger has surely been surprised at times by the web surfers arriving at their site through search engines. I have received more hits on my original entry on the driveway project than any other post I’ve written. Second is this one on the women war protestors, but that could have been predicted. Most of the ones who arrived at the latter article were probably disappointed but I hope others have found something useful or entertaining here.